Bing is an internet online search engine had as well as run by Microsoft. The solution has its beginnings in Microsoft's previous internet search engine: MSN Search, Windows Live Search as well as later Live Search. Bing gives a selection of search solutions, including internet, video clip, photo and map search items. It is established making use of ASP.NET.

Bing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was revealed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital seminar in San Diego, California, for release on June 3, 2009. Remarkable brand-new attributes at the time consisted of the listing of search ideas while queries are gone into as well as a listing of associated searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic innovation from Powerset, which Microsoft had actually obtained in 2008.

In July 2009, Microsoft as well as Yahoo! introduced a sell which Bing would power Yahoo! Browse. All Yahoo! Browse international consumers and also partners made the shift by very early 2012.= The offer was modified in 2015, meaning Yahoo! was only required to make use of Bing for a "bulk" of searches.

In October 2011, Microsoft stated that they were servicing new back-end search facilities with the objective of providing faster and also somewhat more appropriate search results for users. Known as "Tiger", the brand-new index-serving innovation had actually been incorporated into Bing globally given that August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft revealed another redesign of its online search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social attribute that searches users' socials media for details appropriate to the search question.

As of October 2018, Bing is the third largest internet search engine worldwide, with a query quantity of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) as well as Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Browse, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%.